Wide Angle

• Japan
• 2013
• 65min

In this omnibus animation created by four directors. Tsukumo and Combustible are miniature animations maximizing the traditional Japanese artistic sensibility of the Edo period. Tsukumo is exceptional in the detailed craftwork of ...

World Cinema

• United States
• 2013
• 124min

The story begins as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg team up to become underground watchdogs of the privileged and powerful. On a shoestring, they create a platform that allows whistleblower...

• Toronto Film Festival (Opening Film)

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 99min

Daytime Drinking director Noh Youngseok’s sophomore feature film. A man goes to a mountain cabin in winter to do some undistracted writing, but things start to go wrong from the very beginning. A young man in the village kindly sh...

Wide Angle

• Philippines,United States
• 2013
• 27min

Johnny really likes one of his regular customers, Dolores, but has not worked up the courage to talk to her yet. One day he finds out that Dolores lost her job and is looking for new employment. He asks her to clean his apartment....

Midnight Passion

• United States,Korea,South
• 2013
• 127min

A National Emergency grips the country. The corpses of the recently dead are returning to life and attacking the living, devouring their victims. In the big cities, the situation is acute as people panic and confusion reigns. Two ...

Korean Cinema Today

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 100min

When Mansup comes back to school after completing military service, he is surprised that the foot volleyball(Jokgu) court has disappeared. His friends are all busy thinking about getting a job, and the only one who cares about the...

Special Programs in Focus

• Tajikistan
• 2013
• 83min

Why the “presence?” Set during Tajikistan’s civil war from 1993 to 1997, the film features no military action, only occasional bursts of automatic rifle fire and men in uniform emerging from somewhere with guns, to remind us that ...

World Cinema

• Germany
• 2013
• 90min

A young girl survives a comet that hit earth and wiped out most of humanity and all of civilization. Alone and abandoned she leaves the ruins of cities and enters nature. She grows to become a lone wolf who braves her fate and her...

Wide Angle

• Korea,South
• 2013
• 24min

In this debut short film by Director Kim Dong-ho, Honorary Festival Director, BIFF, a jury undergoes heated discussions over the prize-winner of a Short Film Festival. Different ideas about movie clash, but an unexpected, superb a...

A Window on Asian Cinema

• Philippines
• 2013
• 110min

On April 1942, Filipino and American soldiers surrendered to Imperialist Japanese army in Bataan, Philippines. Although they were captured as war captives, they had some hope for basic welfare. The hope didn’t last long as some of...